BD Touch Blu-ray disc-to-iPhone app officially unveiled
By Richard Lawler 
posted Apr 10th 2008 7:57PM
posted Apr 10th 2008 7:57PM
Ending the awful (two) days of waiting, NetBlender's officially presenting its latest innovation, BD Touch. Bringing together Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch and Blu-ray's BD-Live internet connection to potentially allow combinations like sending copies of a movie to iPhone directly from the disc menu, viewing fan created content in sync with a movie or, yes, using the iPhone as a remote control. All that geolocation, 3D motion sensitive, multitouch and predictive keyboard could be a part of our favorite movie (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) -- once some developer makes it happen. The disc authoring end of the tool is built into NetBlender's DoStudio software, while there are two iPhone SDKs (the Connect SDK is free, while the Premiere Blend/In SDK adds functionality but requires certification and licensing) available. Video demos are after the jump, so take a look and see what you can come up with.
Metabeam congratulates John, Denny and all the folks over at our partner Netblender on BD-Touch. I'm sure we're not alone in the Blu-Ray development community in looking forward to helping Netblender bring iPhone/Blu-Ray integration to the Hi-Def Living Room.
(Oh, and we hope Steve doesn't too get mad about the video...)
Sweet, so like eleven people will take advantage of this?
Seriously, I don't imagine a lot of pickup from disc producers / user created content / geolocation / whatever else all working in sync on a large number of titles.
That hasn't stopped a niche feature like D-Box motion codes from being added to hundreds of Blu-ray movies. ;)
If it lets me use my iPod Touch as a real PS3 Remote, I'm sold.
This is getting boring. I wish the BDA would start making noises about managed copy and put an end to all of this portable copy / iPod nonsense.
THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME I'M SOLD ALREADY
nothing else to say but WOOT!!!